Pacific Diary

August 22nd, 2012

By Jan Barry In the summer of 1942, on his 21st birthday, Alfred Theodore “Ted” Graham, Jr., a trumpet player, volunteer fireman, and newspaper reporter from Jacksonville, New York, enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After training as an aerial gunner-radioman, ATG was assigned to Bombing Squadron 15, serving on the aircraft carrier USS Essex, which […]


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Tom Hanks on World War II

April 4th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Tom Hanks is gifted actor, almost an icon. He also considers himself an activist of sorts. Sadly enough, Hanks is nowhere near as good an activist as he is an actor. Only Vice President Joe Biden can match Hanks when it comes saying stupid things. Proof of Hanks’ stupidity is in an […]


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Russia to Suppress “Falsifications” about USSR

June 4th, 2009

According to an article in The Moscow Times on May 20, President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the creation of a new commission tasked with countering attempts to rewrite history to the detriment of Russia’s interests. The article states the Commission, officially titled the “Commission on Analyzing and Suppressing Falsifications of History Detrimental to Russia,” is being […]


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